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Yeah - I feel it's a typo or conflation of Truman's overall investment deal in the area in the press release. For example, the Dorian was probably the last hotel of this scale built new in the core and was $110M, 27 floors, 308 rooms (2022).

Yes! This will be a bit of tangent, but signal timing is central to this site's "close to everything yet isolated completely problem". Long signal phases is one of those small anti-pedestrian things that Calgary does that isn't that common in other cities. Combined with generally unpleasant...

There's got to be some conflating on both the investment level and the room numbers between this project and Truman's overall plans in the area I don't think a 13 storey hotel of this size can fit 330 rooms, nor does it cost $330M to build. The Dorian is about 30 storeys and has about 300 rooms...

Looks cool - seems a bit small to fit the 320 units they are suggesting, though. Is that a typo or does the 320 units include the other proposed tower too?

It's a bit of how you look at it. I have shared this before, but think it's a good one. Number of days per year with highs above 30: The top 3 years were all in the past 5 years: 2021 = 21 days 2022 = 17 days 2024 = 16 days Of those years, none had a 30 degree day in May. I think we have to...

Also might have something to do with the seasonal expectations: 30+ degrees in late May is not unheard of, but is 10+ degrees above normal averages.

Wide spread urban style 6 storeys have many advantages and are a good strategy. The problem is the "wide spread" part. Until very recently with the main street upzoning and the latest local area plans, 6 storeys were few and far between, almost nowhere would support them. We are now seeing a...

How can these both be true at the same time? Does the "limit on market demand" mean that if one tower is approved then 40 other developments don't happen? If that's the case, wouldn't that mean less pressure to turn over smaller-scale and fine-grained areas for towers? Empirically, the...

A good north American example is the Le P’tit Train du Nord trail from outside Montreal to Mont Tremblant and beyond. About 250km total through small towns, campsites and scenic spots. Been a growing attraction since constructed on an old railway line back in the 1990s. It's mostly paved, but...

Overall, hard to disagree with density at this location - it's metres away from a few dozen restaurants/shops, multiple day cares, a grocery store (potentially with a second coming with the CO-OP project), several transit lines including Max Yellow that is only 4 stops (~10 to 15 minutes) from...

I don't get the "city being sneaky" comment here - from all materials, heights of this scale were debated throughout the process for a few years. The "done deal" you mentioned was the final draft of the plan getting approved by City Council, after being at committee earlier in the year for...

Details seem hard to find on this one, but I think this is where they landed - essentially bike lanes convert to multi-use pathway starting west of the bridge over Crowchild and continue on both sides until 22nd Street, where the sidewalk starts again. It's pretty basic stuff, but I kind of like...

Decent scale and scope for the area - a good example of how you can a lot of units without necessarily adding much height. I assume this will integrate into the 26 Avenue SW improvement work that is scheduled for the next few years. If I recall correctly, repaving + multi-use pathway in front of...

I've ridden that hill before - hopefully a proposed path follows more of the river/CPR route than Scott Lake Hill. It's a brutal climb coming back towards Calgary and definitely not the scenic route that would be one of the main ideas for the pathway in the first place (I'd hope!)

What a weirdo building. I like it!

This project is great. It's a modest, but meaningful, attempt at humanizing a car sewer in suburban Calgarian, Memorial/Parkdale Blvd being one of the few sewers with properties that actually front onto the street and are conducive for being repaired and created. Bonus points for being first in...

It's a about ~130 - 150km of trail, which would be doable in a single day for the more serious cyclists. However if you have a few campgrounds to break it up, you'd really attract the family and more leisurely crowd that's more interested in a 30 - 60km / day trip. With e-bikes becoming main...

If you could bike to Banff from Calgary on a separated pathway that would be revolutionary. Throw down a few campsites and with the advent of e-bikes for the less mobile and it would become a classic weekend adventure getaway in the region.

This is the kind of rational, efficient urban concept plan really highlights just how bizarrely inefficient and unthoughtful our major provincial facilities are at site design at integration with the communities around them. Children's Hospital (and to a lesser extent U of C) is so strange...

Part of the reason is BC (and most provinces) are still growing relatively rapidly - periodically Alberta grows faster for a while, but a sustaining a meaningful higher growth rate in Alberta hasn't really happened short of a few years every decade during a boom. BC's larger base population...